LGBTQIA+

When You Love Something, You Simply Fight for It

Clare Byarugaba / Africa Is A Country Nov 8, 2024 A personal reflection from one of the few openly gay rights activists in Uganda. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

LGBTQIA+

Amid Rightwing Attacks, A Pull Back on Pride

Susan J. Demas / Michigan Advance Jun 10, 2024 In recent years, Pride celebrations events have drawn violent threats amid more than 500 anti-LGBTQ+ bills being introduced. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Belief & Religion

How Western Washington State Explains the Rise of Hate Groups

Leah Sottile / High Country News Jun 7, 2024 The history of Lewis County shows what happens when a community indulges in historical amnesia. Dig deeper ( 25 Min. Read )

Editorial Cartoons

Right Wing Pride

Adam Zyglis Jun 22, 2023 Dig deeper

Corporate Opportunism Has Reached a New Low

Jill Richardson / OtherWords Jun 30, 2019 Churning out cheap rainbow swag during Pride Month is about marketing, not supporting LGBTQ+ people. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Straight People Should Be Glad They Don’t Need a Parade

Jill Richardson / OtherWords Jun 12, 2019 Contrary to what the organizers of Boston's "Straight Pride Parade" would have you believe, straight pride is already well represented. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Gay Pride Parades Sound a Note of Resistance

By Olga R. Rodriguez, Associated Press Jun 26, 2017 "We have to be as visible as possible," said one San Francisco marcher who joined a "resistance contingent" that led the city's parade. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Pride and Defiance: LGBTQ Marchers Make a Showing at the White House

Staff / Truthdig Jun 12, 2017 Though celebration was in the air at Saturday's Capital Pride Parade in Washington, D.C., the crowd also brought other sentiments and goals to this year's event. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Gun Store Owner Says He Tipped FBI Off About Suspicious Customer Weeks Before Orlando Shooting

Staff / Truthdig Jun 17, 2016 The FBI has some explaining to do. A gun store owner in Jensen Beach, Fla., has said that he alerted the intelligence agency's West Palm Beach outpost about an incident involving a suspicious customer who turned out to be Pulse Orlando shooter Omar Mateen. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Top Seven Ways to Tell If Someone Is Lying About Being a ‘Salafi Jihadi’ (Video)

Juan Cole / Truthdig Jun 14, 2016 Regulars at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., are saying that Omar Mateen, the gunman in the early Sunday-morning massacre there, was himself a regular. So there’s just one thing about his claim to be acting on behalf of Islamic State: Puritanical Muslim fundamentalists of the Islamic State sort don’t frequent gay bars. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Omar Mateen and Right-Wing Homophobia: Was Florida Massacre a Hate Crime or Domestic Terrorism?

Juan Cole / Truthdig Jun 13, 2016 U.S. law enforcement is at least initially categorizing the horrific Orlando shootings as “domestic terrorism,” but it probably wasn't terrorism in any useful sense of the word. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Will Orlando Drive Us From Our Corners?

E.J. Dionne Jr. / Truthdig Jun 13, 2016 It only compounded the horror that the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history called forth talking points that had been composed long before 50 innocents were murdered early Sunday. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )